Author: Edwin Arthur Burtt
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science
Author: Edwin Arthur Burtt
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
Author: Edwin Arthur Burtt
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486425511
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This classic in the philosophy of science describes and analyzes the profound change from the philosophy of the Middle Ages to the modern view of humanity's less central place in the universe. It offers a fascinating analysis of the works of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Hobbes, Gilbert, Boyle, and Newton.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486425511
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
This classic in the philosophy of science describes and analyzes the profound change from the philosophy of the Middle Ages to the modern view of humanity's less central place in the universe. It offers a fascinating analysis of the works of Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Descartes, Hobbes, Gilbert, Boyle, and Newton.
New Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Science
Author: Willis W. Harman
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Metaphysical Foundations of Natural Science
Author: Immanuel Kant
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521544757
Category : Physical sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Preface 1. Metaphysical foundations of phoronomy 2. Metaphysical foundations of dynamics 3. Metaphysical foundations of mechanics 4. Metaphysical foundations of phenomenology.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521544757
Category : Physical sciences
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Preface 1. Metaphysical foundations of phoronomy 2. Metaphysical foundations of dynamics 3. Metaphysical foundations of mechanics 4. Metaphysical foundations of phenomenology.
Aristotle's Revenge
Author: Edward Feser
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783868382006
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are: The metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method. The status of scientific realism The metaphysics of space and time. The metaphysics of quantum mechanics. Reductionism in chemistry and biology. The metaphysics of evolution. Neuroscientific reductionism. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science, so as to bring contemporary philosophy and science into dialogue with the Aristotelian tradition.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783868382006
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Actuality and potentiality, substantial form and prime matter, efficient causality and teleology are among the fundamental concepts of Aristotelian philosophy of nature. Aristotle's Revenge argues that these concepts are not only compatible with modern science, but are implicitly presupposed by modern science. Among the many topics covered are: The metaphysical presuppositions of scientific method. The status of scientific realism The metaphysics of space and time. The metaphysics of quantum mechanics. Reductionism in chemistry and biology. The metaphysics of evolution. Neuroscientific reductionism. The book interacts heavily with the literature on these issues in contemporary analytic metaphysics and philosophy of science, so as to bring contemporary philosophy and science into dialogue with the Aristotelian tradition.
God's Philosophers
Author: James Hannam
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848311583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. In "God's Philosophers", James Hannam debunks many of the myths about the Middle Ages, showing that medieval people did not think the earth is flat, nor did Columbus 'prove' that it is a sphere; the Inquisition burnt nobody for their science nor was Copernicus afraid of persecution; no Pope tried to ban human dissection or the number zero. "God's Philosophers" is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. Decisive progress was also made in technology: spectacles and the mechanical clock, for instance, were both invented in thirteenth-century Europe. Charting an epic journey through six centuries of history, "God's Philosophers" brings back to light the discoveries of neglected geniuses like John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Thomas Bradwardine, as well as putting into context the contributions of more familiar figures like Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Publisher: Icon Books Ltd
ISBN: 1848311583
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 551
Book Description
This is a powerful and a thrilling narrative history revealing the roots of modern science in the medieval world. The adjective 'medieval' has become a synonym for brutality and uncivilized behavior. Yet without the work of medieval scholars there could have been no Galileo, no Newton and no Scientific Revolution. In "God's Philosophers", James Hannam debunks many of the myths about the Middle Ages, showing that medieval people did not think the earth is flat, nor did Columbus 'prove' that it is a sphere; the Inquisition burnt nobody for their science nor was Copernicus afraid of persecution; no Pope tried to ban human dissection or the number zero. "God's Philosophers" is a celebration of the forgotten scientific achievements of the Middle Ages - advances which were often made thanks to, rather than in spite of, the influence of Christianity and Islam. Decisive progress was also made in technology: spectacles and the mechanical clock, for instance, were both invented in thirteenth-century Europe. Charting an epic journey through six centuries of history, "God's Philosophers" brings back to light the discoveries of neglected geniuses like John Buridan, Nicole Oresme and Thomas Bradwardine, as well as putting into context the contributions of more familiar figures like Roger Bacon, William of Ockham and Saint Thomas Aquinas.
Kant's Construction of Nature
Author: Michael Friedman
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521198399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
This book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521198399
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 645
Book Description
This book develops a new reading of the Metaphysical Foundations and articulates an original perspective of Kant's critical philosophy as a whole.
The Disorder of Things
Author: John Dupré
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674212619
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
With this manifesto, John Dupré systematically attacks the ideal of scientific unity by showing how its underlying assumptions are at odds with the central conclusions of science itself.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674212619
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 324
Book Description
With this manifesto, John Dupré systematically attacks the ideal of scientific unity by showing how its underlying assumptions are at odds with the central conclusions of science itself.
The Metaphysical Foundations of Modern Physical Science
Author: Edwin Arthur Burtt
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 382
Book Description
Human Nature and the Limits of Science
Author: John Dupré
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199248060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. He claims it is important to resist scientism - an exaggerated conception of what science can be expected to do.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199248060
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 212
Book Description
Dupré warns that our understanding of human nature is being distorted by two faulty and harmful forms of pseudo-scientific thinking. He claims it is important to resist scientism - an exaggerated conception of what science can be expected to do.